Bochra Belhaj Hmida

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Bochra Belhaj Hmida

Bochra Belhaj Hmida ( Arabic بشرى بلحاج حميدة, DMG Bušrā Balḥāǧ Ḥamīda ) is a Tunisian lawyer and politician.

biography

Bochra Belhaj Hmida was born in Zaghouan . She has a university degree in law, completed her legal clerkship in 1981, and became a lawyer in 1992. In 1989 she co-founded the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates - ATFD). She was president of this organization from 1994 to 1998.

In 2012 she represented a young woman who was raped by police officers. She said that she believed the Ennahda government was politically and morally responsible for the crime.

She joined the Democratic Foum for Work and Freedom in 2011 (Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés). She then stood for election to the National Assembly to chair the Zaghouan List, but was not elected.

Bochra Belhaj Hmida has been a member of the board of the Nidaa Tounes movement since September 2012. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2014 and continued to campaign for women's rights in Tunisia.

Bochra Belhaj Hmida is also chair of the Committee for Individual Freedom and Equality (Commission des libertés individes et de l'égalité - Colibe), which was initiated in 2017 by Tunisian President Béji Caïd Essebsi. This commission should provide a report on the effects laws have on individual freedom and equality, as these have been granted by the constitution and international human rights standards since 2014. As chairman of this committee, Bochra Belhaj Hmida wants to eliminate the differences between men and women with regard to inheritance law. This led to a public outcry in Tunisia. The proposal to change the law is to be discussed in the course of 2019.

Honors

On August 13, 2018, National Women's Day, Bochra Belhaj Hmida was honored by the Tunisian President as Commander of the Order of the Republic of Tunisia (Ordre de la République tunisienne). On September 27th of the same year she received the Heroines Prize of the Global Hope Coalition. She was also voted Politician of the Year by the Tunisian press in 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Difficile et lente transition vers la démocratie (fr) . November 23, 2012. Accessed March 22, 2019. 
  2. ↑ Bochra Belhaj Hmida, militante de la Tunisie “universal” (fr) . December 23, 2018. Accessed March 22, 2019. 
  3. ↑ a b Bochra Belhaj Hamida | Marsad Majles ( fr ) In: Marsad . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Femme violée en Tunisie: pour l'avocate, le gouvernement est responsable (fr) . September 27, 2012. Accessed March 22, 2019. 
  5. ↑ La tunisie se prepares pour des elections historiques . In: L'express . 17th October 2011. Retrieved on 22nd March 2019.
  6. ↑ La-Croix.com: La Tunisie adopte une nouvelle loi contre les violences faites aux femmes ( fr ) In: La Croix . July 27, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ Qui sont les membres de la commission des libertés individes et de l'égalité créée par Béji Caid Essebsi? ( fr ) In: Al HuffPost Maghreb . August 13, 2017. Accessed March 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ Etre une femme en Afrique: "On doit toujours prouver qu'on est capables" (fr) . December 3, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2019. 
  9. ↑ Pourquoi les auteurs du Rapport sur les libertés et les droits (COLIBE) ont-ils été décorés ( fr ) In: Leaders . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ Bochra Bel Haj Hmida primé aux Etats-Unis pour sa lutte contre l'extrémisme et l'intolérance ( fr ) In: Al Maghreb HuffPost . September 28, 2018. Accessed March 22, 2019.
  11. ↑ Pour vous, c'est la personnalité politique de l'année 2018 - Bochra Bel Haj Hmida: Le parcours, les combats (INTERVIEW) ( fr ) In: Al HuffPost Maghreb . January 2, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hmida, Bochra Belhaj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaghouan